A girl with colitis goes by…

In the early days of the web, Am I Right was one of the funniest sites there was: a database of misheard lyrics. The misunderstanding of the psychedelic Beatles lyrics “A girl with kaleidoscope eyes” with the absurdist “A girl with colitis goes by” is still one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard.

And now there is a wonderful infograph by direct lyrics, to summarize the most common mistakes. Wasn’t it about time?

And perhaps the worst was when I was 11 and had taken a shine to D-ream’s follow up single to “Things can only get better” and had gone into the record shop demanding their “I want to party up the wall” single. Embarrassing enough right there . Except the the shop assistant (definitely a bit of a prick) said they didn’t have it and suggested I sang it to him. So I did and they had it. Turned out it was “Party up the World”.